BITCOIN SEASON 2: The NFT Market is Broken, Here's How To Fix It

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Nick from Gamma explains how Bitcoin ordinals differ from traditional NFTs and introduces Signals - a platform solving the broken price discovery process that forces users to jump through ridiculous hoops just to buy digital collectibles. You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Nick, co-founder of Gamma, joins us to talk about the broken NFT market discovery process and how their new platform Signals fixes the ridiculous whitelist system. We dive into Bitcoin ordinals vs traditional NFTs, why inscriptions are superior to off-chain storage, and how auction-style price discovery creates fairer markets for creators and collectors. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • Tens of thousands of Bitcoin nodes store inscriptions • 2021 marked peak NFT hype cycle craze • Most NFT data stored on centralized servers • Signals uses auction clearing price model • Bitcoin inscriptions permanently on-chain • Traditional NFTs just track ownership Timestamps 00:00 Start 00:49 Inscribing Vegas conference 02:47 NFT market currently 05:45 Market participants 11:44 Why are Ordinals & Inscriptions interesting? 20:36 Arch Network 21:08 Price discovery (it's harder than it looks) 29:09 Signals Art 39:54 Blockspace 40:43 Is a market equilibrium possible? 45:05 Wrap up 47:53 Invite code #BS2 - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Bitcoin season two. I've got Nick, co-founder of Gamma, a Bitcoin
0:04.5	NFT Ordinals Launchpad Marketplace, and they have a very interesting product solving the price
0:11.9	and market discovery problem with NFTs. We're going to dive into the broader NFT market,
0:17.0	explain what it is, and some of the intractable problems, or maybe they are tractable, meaning they can be fixed.
0:23.4	Nick has some very interesting ideas.
0:25.3	So welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2.
0:27.6	Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Arch Network,
0:30.2	the platform building bridgeless apps on Bitcoin
0:32.6	or on Arch later on the show.
0:34.2	Let's kick it off.
0:44.3	Okay. later on the show, let's kick it off. Nick, thanks for coming on Bitcoin season two. How are you?
0:45.3	Last time we saw we were in Vegas, you gave a pretty cool announcement.
0:50.3	What are your takeaways from the conference inscribing Vegas that we were at just a couple weeks ago?
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.4	I mean, well, first off, thanks for having me.
0:58.0	I really appreciate it.
0:59.3	And hopefully can share some little bits of info or alpha for the listeners.
1:06.0	But yeah, inscribing Vegas and Bitcoin 2025 in general, like just, uh, it, it has a way,
1:13.0	I think conferences in general, but especially Bitcoin conference has a way of like reinvigorating,
1:18.9	uh, kind of, you know, the, the feeling you have.
1:22.6	I think there's like these periods of, especially like in the macro environment, like even
1:27.4	outside of blockchain and
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